Trucking News

Large increases in the last two weeks brought the average price of diesel to $3.069 per gallon, according to a report Monday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Freight brokers are studying whether they can help correct a steep imbalance in transportation equipment availability that is hurting efforts of U.S. exporters to get goods to overseas markets.

The global logistics chief for Duty Free Shops is calling on freight brokers to straighten out gray areas in liability which he says leave his company too easily exposed to injury claims by independen

In the latest sign of the Obama administration’s commitment to inland waterways, the Department of Transportation is launching a formal marine highway program to be funded through dedicated gran

Knight Transportation is considering the potential acquisition of a fellow truckload carrier that generated about $450 million in revenue last year.

From one end of the country to the other, shippers of the largest grain crops — soybeans, wheat and especially corn — are gearing up to fill the supply chain needs of late 2010 and 2011.

The trucking industry shrank rapidly last year, as the worst financial crisis in decades eliminated billions of dollars in freight revenue and erased years of growth at many carriers.

Rhode Island is still drying out from late-March floods that swamped the state and shut down a part of Interstate 95 between New York and Boston, but the Department of Transportation is already sendin

The Department of Transportation’s payments to states for work done under economic stimulus projects reached $10.264 billion by March 26, up $286 million from a week earlier.

Averitt Express is the latest less-than-truckload carrier to tigthen transit times in thousands of lanes.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is delaying its CSA 2010 safety program to give trucking companies more time to prepare.

Concern is building that coming climate change legislation in the Senate could propose a tax on motor fuels that would divert some future fees from the Highway Trust Fund.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide says its daily shipment volume improved month-to-month in the first quarter, but business levels remained depressed from a year ago.

Nearly half of the truckload carriers polled in a recent survey said they were not prepared for new federal driver safety rules.

The Obama administration rejected Pennsylvania’s latest attempt to use tolls on Interstate 80 to raise revenue, prompting criticism from Gov. Ed Rendell.

Less-than-truckload carrier Estes is changing its freight routing network to speed shipments moving between its Midwestern terminals and other U.S. markets.

UPS is deploying 200 hybrid diesel-electric delivery trucks in eight cities across the United States, increasing the size of its hybrid electric fleet by 400 percent.

Truckload carrier Western Express plans to raise $275 million by selling eight-year securities and use the funds to pay down debt and to buy new trucks.

The 83-year-old Peace Bridge, for more than 20 years a ground of local conflict, should receive by this summer the final go-ahead to reinvent itself with a twin span between Buffalo, N.Y., and Fort Er

The average price of diesel fuel jumped 7.6 cents last week to $3.015 per gallon, pushing beyond the $3 threshold for the first time in 17 months, according to figures released Monday by the U.S.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is expected to release a date for the introduction of significant new truck and driver safety rules “in the coming weeks.”

The Obama administration is forming a national freight transportation policy that can be boiled down to one concept: Get more trucks off the roads.

The marine highways concept has a number of selling points.

Support for broad-based pension reform is growing in Washington as businesses and labor unions seek a federal fix for troubled union and corporate retirement plans.

Container terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach have taken their lumps over the years because of congestion problems, but they have also been innovators in reducing gate delays through the Pier

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If you’ve ever received a package from UPS, you’re all too familiar with those tiny handheld devices the drivers wield to scan bar codes and get your signature.

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., unveiled legislation on March 22 that would reform multi-employer pension plans.

Specialized truckload carrier Prime raised its minimum pay for owner-operators last month to 95 cents a mile, as growing freight traffic sparks higher demand for drivers.

The select group of trucking companies with more than a billion dollars in annual revenue shrank last year, as four companies fell below the revenue threshold.

More than 5,000 trucking companies will be required to install electronic on-board recorders in their trucks, the Department of Transportation said Friday.

March brought increases in employment across U.S. surface transportation industries, with mild job gains in trucking, rail and waterborne commerce breaking a long downtrend during the recession.

The two largest trucking businesses increased their market share last year despite falling revenue, holding onto business better than many of their smaller competitors.

Flooding after torrential rains left parts of Interstate 95 in Rhode Island under more than three feet of water Wednesday and Thursday.

Specialized truckload carrier Prime managed to do something none of the 49 other top trucking companies accomplished in 2009: Increase its revenue.

Demand for Class 8 heavy trucks will increase just 3 percent this year, but shoot up more than 50 percent in 2011, research firm FTR Associates says.

A congressional panel set a hearing for May 5 on proposals to allow the economic regulation of harbor trucking, an issue that has sharply divided shippers and trade groups from a handful of ports and

Truckload operator Knight Transportation is working on the potential acquisition of a fellow carrier that generated $450 million in revenue last year.

The Department of Transportation proposed a rule Wednesday that would make permanent a two-month-old ban on cell-phone texting by truck and bus drivers.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood tapped 10 leading analysts representing the freight industry, state highway agencies and academia to advise his Department on data it gathers.